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This is likely to reflect service protocols used by the teams participating in the study, whereby screening for behavioural risk factors is part of the standard assessment process usually undertaken at the first visit.
In the interim, the variation in practice that we have demonstrated is concerning and suggests the need for a formal consensus process whereby screening for, diagnosis and treatment of AIN is standardized using best available evidence and expert opinion.
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The technicians achieved very high levels of sensitivity and specificity, allowing 'task-shifting' whereby they screen for ROP, only referring infants for confirmatory diagnosis by an ophthalmologist when they detect 'referral warranted ROP'.
Phase 1 of the study consisted of telephone interviews with male and female (ex-) Service personnel whereby clinical screening measures for mental health were used.
Surveillance may be passive, whereby laboratory results from clinical samples are monitored, or active, whereby patients are actively screened for the carrier state in order to identify the entire reservoir.
Take screening for AAA.
Screening for illegal substances.
Regular screening for uterine cancer.
An alternative strategy whereby subjects were first screened for presence of albuminuria, and additional cardiovascular risk factors were only measured in subjects positive for albuminuria (n = 238), would identify only 27% (118/431) of the subjects with additional and potentially modifiable cardiovascular risk factors.
Articles were identified in a staged process whereby titles were initially screened for potential eligibility by a single reviewer (GE).
Subsequent transgenic generations were bred to background with WT C57BL/6 mice for 7 generations, whereby each generation was screened for transgenic positive offsprings by PCR.
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